Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
